Valley Emperor

In the fifteenth year of Xuanping’s reign, Concubine Kang returned to Suzhou for the first time. The royal family’s industry department spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for this, but that’s not all. The Song family also paid tens of thousands of private house money.

In addition, in order to welcome Concubine Kang home, the Song family in Suzhou started preparations a year in advance, and spent huge sums of money to build a large-scale and luxurious mansion for Concubine Song Kang to live in at the first time.

At the same time, the local government in Suzhou also made a lot of arrangements.

For Concubine Song Kang's first trip home, all parties prepared a year in advance and mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources. The total cost of all parties definitely exceeded 300,000.

It would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to go back to her mother's house. Li Xuan, the emperor, couldn't see it. He always thought that the ridicule of Yuan Chun's head in the Dream of Red Mansions was just the words of the family. Even more trouble.

Therefore, he specially decreed that all concubines should not be extravagant, disturb the people, or disturb officials.

To put it simply and bluntly, don't turn the head into a political event, go back and see the two elders, don't make so many messes, I can't pass the money you guys spend like this.

It's not Li Xuanxu, but he has too many women!

A woman will spend hundreds of thousands to go back to her parents' house, ten is several million, one hundred is tens of millions, and his concubine is definitely more than one hundred!

Alas, Li Xuan often sighs that too many women are troublesome, not to mention hard work and too much money!

After the order to ban extravagance and waste, let the first return to its essence, and not have anything to do with politics, plus the appearance of trains and ships, Li Xuan was released on a relatively large scale.

As long as there are no special circumstances and the transportation is convenient, the concubine can go home once a year, and even those concubines whose hometown is in a city along the railway line can even go back and forth on the same day, or go back tomorrow.

In the past two years, even some of the favorite concubines wanted to go shopping in Shanghai. As long as they acted like a spoiled child, Li Xuan would generally agree.

Isn't it just shopping, what I have is money, Aifei, you spend it by the way!

Well, naturally there are not many concubines who have this kind of treatment, because you can only be approved if you can act like a spoiled child in front of Li Xuan!

The concubine who can't even see Li Xuan's face, naturally don't count on it.

The Shanghai Palace, since it was built more than ten years ago, a few concubines and princesses have lived there in the past few years, not only the Shanghai Palace, in fact, the Royal Industry Department is basically the same in other palaces across the country. Li Xuan did not go to live there. However, his princes have never lived there, at most some of the concubines sat down when they returned home.

But now, the Shanghai Palace will welcome its true owner, the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan!

In order to keep the Shanghai Palace in the best condition, not only did the Royal Family Industry Section spend a lot of money on rebuilding, but even the finances of Heshe County also took out a sum of money.

However, most of the money spent in Shanghai is not the renovation of such a Shanghai palace in the district. This Shanghai palace is very well maintained. Every year, concubines and princesses stay there. In fact, the repair does not cost much. After all, it is not a large-scale reconstruction. Or create a new one.

More expenses in Shanghai are mainly in the appearance of the city and the transportation!

Beginning last fall, the prefectural government of Songjiang prefecture and the county government of Shanghe County, the local finance of the two-level institutions, jointly invested in the entire urban area of ​​Shanghai, including the first industrial zone, the second industrial zone, the old city, the business zone, A total of six urban areas, Bei'an Industrial Zone and Xicheng District, will be equipped with transportation facilities throughout the city.

The main work is to repair and maintain the cement roads of the main roads in the urban area, and at the same time lay cement for the roads that have not yet been paved with cement. The whole goal is to complete the cementation of the main roads in the urban area.

Shanghai must ensure that the Son of Heaven will see a completely different Shanghai, a city that cannot be seen in other parts of the empire, not even Jinling City.

At the same time, it also requires the owners of houses on some main roads to repair the damaged and old building exterior walls, and the finance will give certain subsidies.

In Shanghai, most of Shanghai's urban areas are going to be renovated, and the cost of this is going to be huge.

That is, only the wealthy Shanghai can afford it.

In a county in Shanghai, the central fiscal revenue that is turned over to the national treasury every year is higher than that of an ordinary province. This is still an ordinary province, not that Northeast, Gansu, Hetao, and Yunnan provinces are remote and economically backward. Provinces, but rather those of Shandong and Henan are medium and thin.

Don't be surprised, the central fiscal revenue contributed by a county in Shanghai is indeed more than theirs.

In the 26th year of Xuanping, the central financial revenue of the Datang Empire was more than 240 million yuan, of which the financial revenue turned over by Shanghe Shexian reached more than 23 million yuan, accounting for nearly 10%. !

And the central fiscal revenue contributed by the entire Songjiang Prefecture is only more than 30 million.

Even the fiscal revenue that the entire Jiangnan Road turned over to the state treasury was only more than 50 million.

A Shanghai is half Jiangnan!

This is no exaggeration for contemporary Shanghai!

In order to meet the Holy Patrol, large-scale repairs were carried out on the entire city, and even cement roads were fully laid to completely harden the cement in the urban roads and make the dirt roads disappear completely. Only Shanghai can do this.

Even Jinling City, which is kept by the state treasury, would not dare to do this.

Spending so much money to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction in Shanghai is all to let the Son of Heaven see a different Shanghai, and even many local officials are looking forward to that the appearance of Shanghai can make the Son of Heaven see a different kind of Shanghai. Shocked, and then he was promoted and made a fortune!

However, these people are counting on shocking Li Xuan, which is probably disappointing.

When Li Xuan arrived in the urban area of ​​Shanghai on the imperial special train, through the car window, he saw the urban area of ​​Shanghai outside for the first time.

This Shanghai is indeed different from other parts of the empire. Although Li Xuan was only watching from the train, he could still see the cities and villages along the railway.

Similar to what he had guessed, it is still very primitive and backward in the vast rural areas, although there are local officials in some places who deliberately arrange for some well-dressed and well-dressed peasants to pretend to work along the railway, and put some ordinary people. Ordinary peasants were temporarily driven away, but not every local officials would do this.

It is spring, and farmers are working in the fields, weeding and ploughing, etc., in preparation for planting.

So along the way, the rural areas that Li Xuan saw were three extremes, and not many were normal rural scenes.

One is that no one can see it. This is because the local government prohibits everyone from appearing along the railway line for safety or safety. This is also a common situation. The railway lines that the holy car passes through are basically completely blocked. In some places, even hundreds of meters on both sides were blocked, and no one was allowed to enter.

There is another kind of farmland along the railway line, where there are peasants working, and they are all naked and look thin.

The local officials in these places basically made a lot of petitions to ask for financial support from Gyeonggi, so Li Xuan knew at a glance that these local officials did this deliberately, and they were crying!

And Li Xuan also knows that they are not pretending to be poor, and they deliberately let the peasants dressed in rags to disguise, because there is no need to pretend, most of the rural areas in reality are really so poor.

Another is that farmers generally wear good clothes, and every household sprays the ground when ploughing the land, and some even sit on the ground and seem to eat a sumptuous meal.

It seems that use is the most perfect rural picture scroll written by the literati.

But every time Li Xuan saw this kind of place, he would ask the accompanying secretary to write down the name of this place!

When he returned to Beijing, he immediately quit these business affairs, and knew that the local officials who cheated were all exiled to Nanyang.

In addition to being able to see the wild and rural areas, there are naturally a lot of cities to see!

But ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is not a city like Shanghai!

First up are the tall buildings!

After the imperial special train entered the urban area of ​​Shanghai, more and more buildings appeared on both sides of the railway. Generally, there were several floors, and even some high-rise buildings with five or six floors or even seven or eight floors.

Although there are many buildings that cannot explain too much, there is only one thing that can be explained, that is, the population of this city is large enough!

A sparsely populated city does not need these seven- or eight-story high-rise buildings, because the population is small and there are a lot of places to build houses.

Only in Shanghai, the population of the market has exceeded one million, and this does not include these temporary residents who are uncertain. As for the number of temporary residents, it is difficult for Shanghai itself to count, but it is conservatively estimated that there are dozens of people. Thousands of people.

There are a lot of people, but the urban area of ​​Shanghai is only so big. At the same time, due to the traffic level of this era, it is impossible for people to work and live too far apart.

In later generations, the distance between the two can be more than ten kilometers or more, because if you drive or take the subway for more than ten kilometers, it will not take long.

But in today's Shanghai, even if you take a public rail carriage, you stop and go at an incline. Of course, it is different if you have your own private carriage or simply ride a horse.

But then again, you can afford a private carriage, and it's not that difficult to buy or rent a house directly in the city center.

There are many people and many buildings. This is Shanghai's first influence on Li Xuan!

How to put it, there is a feeling of a city in the 1970s and 1980s, and a feeling of modern old Shanghai, but it is like the modern London and other western cities in ancient film and television dramas.

Kind of weird, it's a hodgepodge!

Well, Li Xuan's first feeling was strange, definitely not a shock.